1. Construcciones interrogativas de rechazo con santo, cuento y cuenta: consideraciones históricas.
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Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis
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GRAMMAR , *INTERFERENCE (Linguistics) , *ANALOGY (Linguistics) , *INTERROGATIVE (Grammar) , *HYPOTHESIS - Abstract
The aim of this paper is to study the function and origin of the locutions of causal sense a santo de qué, a qué santo, a cuento de qué, a qué cuento and a cuenta de qué. These phrases introduce marked interrogative constructions, so they imply a negative evaluation by the speaker, that is, they constitute a grammatical sign of the negative implication of the causal question in which they are inserted. The data from all the examples provided in the CDH and CORPES corpus for the forms a santo de qué, a qué santo, a cuento de qué, a qué cuento and a cuenta de qué are analyzed, and an account of the main functional characteristics of the mentioned structures are given. Finally, a hypothesis is posed about the origin and development of the different phrases according to the formal and significant affinities between the different constructions and the relations of interference and analogy in use that may have arisen between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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